deep well submersible

P I Pete

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Got a call Friday from grand daughters husband, they own the building site where my wife and I ran a dairy farm for thirty five years. He said the well pump quit, electric bill had went thru the roof for two months (there was a leak in a remote shed that they didn't notice "kids") that's probably what cooked the pump. Well was drilled in 1976, driller installed pump it was a Flint and Walling don,t know if their still in business. When I was there I had pump pulled a couple times for leaky pipe, pump man made fun of it and called it "flop and wobble" because it was not the brand he sold. That one ran for forty plus years and may have ran longer if not for the leak. Pretty good service. That was a deep well submersible.
Pete
 
Flint and Walling is still around. Didn't read too much, but claims to still be US made.

I have a Star branded shallow well jet pump waiting to go into service. If I remember right, I think its made by Flint & Walling too.

40 years on a pump isn't too shabby.
Looky Here
 

Submersible pumps are designed for shallow, mid and deep wells depending on the number of impeller stages . Doesn't make sense and wastes electricty to installed a deep pump in a shallow well.
 

Submersible pumps are designed for shallow, mid and deep wells depending on the number of impeller stages . Doesn't make sense and wastes electricty to installed a deep pump in a shallow well.
 
(quoted from post at 12:18:44 02/25/17)
Submersible pumps are designed for shallow, mid and deep wells depending on the number of impeller stages . Doesn't make sense and wastes electricty to installed a deep pump in a shallow well.

And may I ask why this was pertinent?
 
I guess it is pertinent because most all farms and rural residences have a well, so it might be informative to some people.

Pete
 
Because there are always a lot of questions and comments about well systems, and there is a lot of shared knowledge on this
site. It probably should have been on tractor tales, but it doesn't matter to me. We can't talk about tractors all the time!
 
I had a Gould, lasted 21 years, silt in the water, lost 4 out of 7 impellers. Only made 30 psi. Replaced with a grundfos.
 

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